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Joaquin Mendes Izard is Head of Partnerships at Taiko Labs and previously he was Head of vertical Growth at Polygon. He is a graduate of the University of Navarra, the Carlos III University of Madrid and the University of Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
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Arpit Sharma
Arpit Sharma is the Managing Director, Middle East, India, South East Asia at NEAR Foundation. Presively he was the Vice President, Global Enterprises, APAC at Polygon Technology.
Amanda Jacobsen
Amanda Tyler is the Head of Marketing for Optimism and was previously the Director of Community for Polygon and Manager of Developer Relations at Google.
Kathleen Chu
Kathleen Chu is Head of marketing communications at Avail, and previously she was Head of Communications at Polygon and Head of Japan at MakerDAO. She is a graduate of Baruch College.
Rebecca Rettig
Rebecca Rettig is Chief Legal and Policy Officer at Polygon and was previously general counsel at Aave Companies. She also works with policymakers around the world on regulatory matters related to decentralized finance (" DeFi ") and crypto assets.
Joe Hamade
Joe Hamade is the VP of Finance at Polygon. He graduated from Wayne State University.
Terence Lam
Terence is the co-founder and CSO of Taiko, and previously was Vice President of Loopring, co-founder of Up Blockchain, and Vice President of HTC.
Simon Wu
Simon Wu is the co-founder of Meex and formerly served as the chief security officer of Huobi.
Brecht Devos
Brecht Devos is the Co-founder & CTO at Taiko.Brecht used to work for Loopring as the Chief Architect, but over the last 12 months or so, he had been working on PSE’s zkEVM with researchers and engineers from the Ethereum Foundation and other open-source projects. Brecht leads Taiko’s Zero-Knowledge R&D team with an objective to implement all remaining EVM opcodes and to customize the zkEVM to fit Taiko’s layer 2 protocol design.
Matthew Finestone
Matthew Finestone is the Co-Founder. He used to worked as Head of Business at Loopring.
Vanessa Grellet
Vanessa Grellet is a managing partner at Aglaé Ventures and was previously head of portfolio growth at CoinFund and executive director at ConsenSys. Prior to joining ConsenSys, she was the CEO of IIH, an innovative Wealth Management firm, a key member of PwC's global wealth management team, and a Corporate Strategy Executive for the NYSE, focusing on M&A.